Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, a joint institute of CU Boulder and NREL
Boulder, Colorado
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Before medical imaging, doctors could only infer what was happening inside the body. X-rays and MRIs didn’t change human biology, they changed what we could see. A new paper from RASEI represents a similar shift for carbon capture technology doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylet…
Researchers in the Electrobuffs group, led by RASEI Fellow Wilson Smith, designed, prototyped, and built a custom flow cell that enabled the use of laser-based Raman spectroscopy to map the chemistry in real time. colorado.edu/lab/electrobuff…
Find out more about how the team built this device, the insights that it provided, and the models and guidelines it provides for the future design of carbon capture technologies here: colorado.edu/rasei/2026/05/1…
A city looks orderly from above, but everyone knows that neighborhoods have their own rules. The same is actually true for magnetic materials!
Even when a materials overall structure says "no spin effects here", local, "neighborhood-level", atomic regions can have their own. This new Perspective by the Zunger Group, published in Matter, explains how neighborhood effects are important: doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2026.…
Check out this highlight that gives an accessible overview of this Perspective, and provides insight into this 'hidden' neighborhood landscape, and what it means for materials design: colorado.edu/rasei/2026/04/2…
Data centers don't have to drain your community's power grid, they can become energy assets. New piece from RASEI researchers Gregor Henze and Sean Shaheen at CU Boulder flips the script on one of tech's biggest sustainability debates. theconversation.com/data-cen… #DataCenters
Today is CU Boulders 2026 Buffs All In Day! Today celebrates 150 years of giving that has supported CU Boulder, impacting communities and connections across Campus.
Check out some of the really excellent videos, messages, and highlights from how giving has impacted ideas, departments, and programs at the link below.
And of course, thank you to those who have already given to RASEI!
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Graduate student Ben Hammel, a member of RASEI Fellow Gordana Dukovic’s research group was one of eleven finalists in the CU Boulder Three Minute Thesis competition last month. Find out more about his experience making nanocrystals understandable here: colorado.edu/rasei/2026/02/2…
Aoife, who worked with RASEI Fellow Lucy Pao, is leading startup Zentus, that uses machine learning to forecast and prevent equipment failures in renewable energy installations.
Check it out here:
colorado.edu/ecee/engineerin…
RASEI January 2026 Research Roundup💡
The RASEI community started out fast in 2026 🚀, with 10 papers published in January. These cover a wide range of topics from how we can make wastewater purification more efficient to how electrons move in one-molecule thick films!
Molecular-level engineering of materials offers the design of novel properties that can be applied in new technologies. This report describes a new tool, where controlled growth of films can influence the orientation & size of crystals: doi.org/10.1063/5.0302146
Quantum dots are important materials for efficient displays, communications, and low energy electronics. This collaboration details how we can tune the properties of the quantum dots by molecularly engineering the ligand structure around the quantum dots: doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmate…
